Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5772

Roughly one half of the movie is spent on bodyswap business. This is probably my favorite part of the movie. It gets played up for humor here, but I still prefer when this stuff gets taken more seriously, like in Shishunki Bitter Change (which is never going to get adapated, but I digress). Then the two of them fall in love. Kinda abrupt, but it's a romance film, so whatever, it's fine.

When the body swaps stop happening, it clued me in to the rest of the plot immediately. I can't remember where I've seen it before, but "person talks to another person in a different time without knowledge of this" is no longer novel to me. A fair amount of time is spent fucking around trying to piece together what happened. I wasn't particularly fond of this part.

My main problem with the movie is its insistence on creating needless drama. The whole memory loss thing at the end is a prime example of this. What did this add to the story? Their reunion scene is nice and all, but I feel the impact of the scene wouldn't be negatively affected if they remembered each other. After all, the memory loss takes up a grand total of five minutes.

Similarly, the bomb plan was dumb. First the evacuation worked, then it didn't work, but then we're told it worked in the end? The way it was handled was really strange. Ultimately, I think the entire subplot about Mitsuha's father seemed wholly unnecessary.

Yeah i kind of agree on a lot of what you said.
That being said, for me enjoyment is the no1 most important factor, where it scores highest for me.

There was a lot of needless drama (i think the whole memory loss thing was kinda dumb), but it allowed for a very nice last 10 minutes where they frantically search for someone they are in love with but don't know who they are, it's very heartwarming and cute haha
I do think they coulda done it without the memory loss though, or it could be better handled at least.

The plan was kind of over the top, all in the name of drama still I think a lot of the drama introduced is necessary because it's fun and kind of what makoto does the best (pulling your feelstrings lmao), and the universal aspects of the film, characters and plot were all done very well so i'm OK with the drama

I didn't read any spoilers except for the MAL (i did reas somewhere about a disaster, but i had no idea until the movie made it obvious so i didn't get spoiled)
I think it's really really important to watch this show without being spoiled, otherwise the whole 20 minute drama of finding out wtf is going on and then realising shes dead and possibly gone for good doesn't work, and it's also makoto's strength in creating tragic inescapable event haha

Mostly I just take issue with having drama for the sake of drama. Drama is a valuable tool for creating tension and getting people invested in the story, but it has to be well written, or it comes off as being trite to me.

Going back to the dad subplot, it's pretty clear that he's grown distant from the family. At the end of the evacuation scene, Mitsuha confronts him, and then... nothing? We can assume from future events that they reconciled and actually continued the evacuation, but it doesn't make much sense when he wasn't willing to believe her in the first place. More importantly, where's the payoff? The whole point of having drama like this is the catharsis when things get solved.

I'm getting old and jaded too, so that doesn't help.